Snug Safety 4+

Living by yourself can be exciting, fun as well as work. You’re entirely responsible for your apartment, home, etc. It also means that you always need to be aware, safe and responsible. What if you happen to trip on a loose carpet when you first got up this morning and injured yourself or possibly worse - are unconscious. Who would know? With Snug you will check-in online on a daily basis at a pre-set time that you set. This takes literally seconds. And if you miss checking in at the time you have designated, a contact which you selected - such as a family member or close friend or a favorite neighbor - will receive an online notification from Snug that you have missed your check-in time. You control when you check-in and who you prefer Snug to contact should you miss your check-in time which you set for yourself. It’s simple to set up and definitely worth giving Snug a try.

Living alone with a medical condition has been a concern for me as well as my family. I had the medical alert and then bought the Apple watch. The first had many false fall alerts and the second irritated my wrist as I have eczema. When I read about Snug I decided to give it a try and I love it. I enjoy not being tethered to anything and even if it is not alerting 24/7 my concern is if something happened overnight. As I said to my daughter who lives far away “I do not want to die in my sleep and smell up the house”. Checking in as I now do gives my daughter peace of mind. No text from Snug means I have checked in. Yes, relatives or friends could do the same but lives get busy. Snug is always here.

I’ve been using the free version, which has all the features I need at the moment. Thanks! I’m sure I will need the paid / premium version at some point :)

The one huge glitch is that the app apparently does not recognize a change in the time zone. I live on the West Coast but went to Hawai’i to house sit for two months. I verified within the app that the time zone was changed to HST and was no longer set on PST. I left the check-in time limit set at 10:00 every morning. However, the app began notifying me three hours too early at 4 a.m. that it was time to check in. At 6 a few mornings I got the warning message asking me if I was OK. And then one morning I slept late and it called my contacts at 7 a.m. It is three hours earlier in Hawai’i. The app does not recognize changes in the time zone - even when set to a new time zone. I did send screenshots of this issue to SNUG support but did not receive a resolution. Maybe in the next update?